More than a month had passed since the battle at Boulder Ravine.
After conducting an initial cleanup of the battlefield and treating the wounded, the Earth Dragon Guard Team broke camp and retreated. They temporarily settled in a relatively secluded valley with intact Earth Veins. It lay tens of thousands of miles from both the former Fierce Beast Camp and Boulder Ravine, where the Malevolent Qi contamination was lighter and suitable for rest and recuperation.
Deep within the valley, inside a crude temporary Cave Dwelling, Lin Yan sat cross-legged with his eyes shut, his aura deep and still as an abyss.
His consciousness had completely sunk into his dantian, focused on the seemingly ancient and unadorned Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace floating beneath the Kun Yuan Sheng Hua Dao Tree.
There was an entirely different world within the furnace.
Chaos Qi filled the space, continuously evolving Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind. Countless Innate Dao Patterns intertwined like chains, forming a web of Laws capable of suppressing the heavens. At the center of this chaos, four figures of varying strength, each emanating a terrifying aura, endured the ruthless erosion of the powers of "Refining" and "Transformation."
The first Golden Immortal Beast to be sealed was the Golden Immortal-level Howling Moon Celestial Wolf that had been imprisoned when the Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace first emerged. Chaos chains pierced through it, the Dao Patterns for "Refining" on those chains flickering as they continuously extracted and dismantled its last traces of Origin Source and Dao Fruit fragments. Its mass of energy had grown as thin as smoke. Only a stubborn, vicious core still pulsed faintly, but it clearly would not hold out much longer.
In another space was the Chaos Fierce Ape, which had only recently been thrown into the furnace and still retained some